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Well, hello! My name is Delina Patrice Brooks. I'm a San Francisco / Oakland-bred, award-winning multi-hyphenate. After writing and recording music with the late Shock G of the iconic hip-hop group Digital Underground, he gave me the nickname "DelinaDream"... and it just kinda stuck :)
In 2006, I founded DelinaDream Productions, where I write and produce plays, screenplays and songs about troubled women who save themselves. I've also studied African dance for many years and performed across the U.S., Western Europe, West Africa and the Philippines; and on Television & Film. My deep roots as a Bay Area artist led me to gain extensive experience as a Facilitator, Grant-Writer and Consultant for individual artists, small businesses, non-profit organizations and more. The victories (and challenges!) of my personal and career experience is steadied by a deliberate calling to build a life that feels like home to my soul. And now, I'm called to share this soulful blueprint with YOU! I invite you to join us at The 5-Point Compass Academy to gather practical and holistic tools to help navigate your creative process, career climb and life's inevitable pain points. May we all move in our light, with courage, vitality and ease. ~DelinaDream |
About Delina
*2023 Disney Writers Program Finalist (1st Alternate, Comedy)
*2023 Resident Artist at The Kennedy Center (Office Hours at The Reach)
*2023 Disney Writers Program Finalist (1st Alternate, Comedy)
*2023 Resident Artist at The Kennedy Center (Office Hours at The Reach)
DIRECTOR / WRITER / CHOREOGRAPHER / PRODUCER:
Chance the Rapper on Saturday Night Live! (TV) Casa de Spirits (by Gueneveur-Smith for Campo Santo, Theater) An Open Love Letter to Black Fathers: A Choreopoem (Dance-Theater) Seeds of Peace (Dance-Theater) Root Medicine (Dance-Theater) In The Meantime (for Kendra Kimbrough Dance Ensemble) Beauty, THE Beast (Dance-Theater) The East Oakland Wiz (Musical Theater for Alliance Academy) HIGHLIGHTED PERFORMANCES: Kanye West's Sunday Service at Coachella CURREN$Y by Dan Wolf Scourge & Pehlotah by Marc Bamuthi Joseph | The Living Word Project Sea of Dreams w/ Zap Mama Distant Relatives Tour w/ Nas & Damian Marley (Fox Theater, Oakland) ASE Dance Theatre Collective And If We Shadows & Echo’s Reach w/ City Circus Cinderella w/ The African American Shakespeare Company A New Fire by Cherrie Moraga | Cihuatl Productions Hair, the Musical w/ Willows Theater Superheroes, Babylon is Burning & Ethos de Masquerade w/ Campo Santo |
SELF-PRODUCED PLAYS & FILMS PRESENTED BY:
National Performance Network | AfroSolo Festival | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts | La Pena Cultural Center | Youth Speaks | LA Women's Theater Festival | SF Juneteenth Festival | Dance Brigade's D.I.R.T. Festival | The Univ. of Wisconsin's Filipino Student Association | International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD) | Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) TELEVISION: FitBit Commercial (OCP) Facebook Commercial (BG) Sense8 Episode (BG) FOX, HULU, Disney/Freeform, ABC, NBC & HBO (Director's/Showrunner's Asst) 
EDUCATION:
Master of Arts Degree in Ethnic Studies (SFSU) Bachelor of Arts Degree in Ethnic Studies (Cal State East Bay) Bachelor of Arts Degree in Kinesiology (SFSU) |
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FUNDING AWARDS:
Akonadi Foundation* Alliance for CA Traditional Arts* Berkeley Film Foundation City of Oakland's Cultural Funding Program* East Bay Community Foundation* East Bay Fund for Artists Sam Mazza Foundation Theatre Bay Area Ca$H Grants Wallace A. Gerbode Foundation* Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Zellerbach Family Foundation* *Indicates multiple annual awards |
PRODUCTION AWARDS:
Isadora Duncan "Izzie" Award Winner Outstanding Ensemble Performance "An Open Love Letter to Black Fathers" ~ Isadora Duncan "Izzie" Award Nomination Best Sound, Music & Text "An Open Love Letter to Black Fathers" ~ PUSH Dance Festival Award Winner Audience Choice "In The Meantime" ~ Isadora Duncan "Izzie" Award Nomination Best Sound, Music & Text "Beauty, THE Beast" |
DELINA'S TV PRODUCTION WORK:
Showrunner's Asst & Director's Asst. Grown-ish (Freeform) Insecure (HBO) Woke (Hulu) Grand Crew (NBC) None of the Above (ABC) FISCAL SPONSORS
Diamano Coura W. African Dance Company Dimensions Dance Theater Impact Hub, Oakland Youth Speaks Zaccho Dance Theatre |
Press & Published Articles
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"Profound" - SF Chronicle, 2018
Published "A Call to Move" in In Dance, 2016 "Truth Telling With Love" Blog Written by Elizabeth Costello, 2016 Published in The Journal of Pan African Studies, Vol. 6, No. 10 2016 Critic's Pick! East Bay Express, 2015 "Commanding... Fierce" SF Gate, 2014 "Irresistibly Lively" SF Gate, 2014 "Wonderfully Delicate" SF Gate, 2010 "A versatile performer who’s got the moves" Contra Costa Times, 2009 "...Knows how to move and modulate her voice to get the blood boiling." SF Bay Times, 2008 |
BARE SOLES BARE SOUL
Revealing the Soul of Women, Two Soles at a Time
Revealing the Soul of Women, Two Soles at a Time
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The above is the original trailer for Bare Soles Bare Soul (BSBS), a 4-part docuseries of intimate portraits which highlight the impact of African Dance on Black women in Oakland, CA. The women in the series reveal that their dance practice allows them to improve upon of a primary struggle: self-preservation. And therein lies the gem of BSBS. With dignity and vulnerability, these women maintain that they’ve practiced African dance for more than fifteen years each, in order to maintain their sense of balance, dignity and purpose beyond studio – in their homes, workplace, community and beyond.
After screening to live audiences of over 1000 people combined, we bring YOU Bare Soles Bare Souls online, to watch from the comfort of... wherever you may be! Don't wait. Watch now to be entertained, uplifted and inspired <3
After screening to live audiences of over 1000 people combined, we bring YOU Bare Soles Bare Souls online, to watch from the comfort of... wherever you may be! Don't wait. Watch now to be entertained, uplifted and inspired <3
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Images by Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi, Co-Producer & Director of Photography, at the SOLD OUT Premiere of
BARE SOLES BARE SOUL at Oakland's Historic Grand Lake Theater
BARE SOLES BARE SOUL at Oakland's Historic Grand Lake Theater